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Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« on: August 23, 2012, 11:02:50 PM »
Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?  (Hopefully not vaporware.)
 

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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 11:32:39 PM »
No and No
 

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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 11:36:40 PM »
Looks like Natami is on life-support, don't hold your breath.

No news on the netbook, maybe Hyperion will release some info in October at the show.   The funny thing is that everyone is more interested in tablets now ;)
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2012, 11:55:01 PM »
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No news on the netbook, maybe Hyperion will release some info in October at the show.   The funny thing is that everyone is more interested in tablets now ;)


Speak for yourself.  I have no interest in an oversized smart phone.  :D
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2012, 11:57:27 PM »
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Speak for yourself.  I have no interest in an oversized smart phone.  :D
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2012, 12:27:31 AM »
Tablet Sales Overtook Netbook Sales in Q2 2011

Imagine what the Netbook market will be like in 2013/2014.
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2012, 12:34:25 AM »
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Tablet Sales Overtook Netbook Sales in Q2 2011

Imagine what the Netbook market will be like in 2013/2014.


It will be declining due to the introduction of the Direct Brain Implant PC.  ;)
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2012, 12:42:41 AM »
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Tablet Sales Overtook Netbook Sales in Q2 2011

Imagine what the Netbook market will be like in 2013/2014.
Good question. I suppose it depends on when people will wake up and realize that netbooks and laptops come with keyboards built in and use real, full-fledged operating systems you can install anything you like on.
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2012, 04:38:29 AM »
Anyone know why Natami is not progressing?  It seemed to be coming along so well for a while -- hoping it was the next generation Amiga.
 

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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2012, 10:56:35 AM »
Tablets are primarily consumption devices, the user can consume various forms of information and entertainment. On screen keyboards are fine for basic uses, but not for longer periods of work. Luckily Bluetooth keyboards exist for most tablets.

However a netbook (especially a decent AMD based one) is actually far more useful if you are going to be doing anything more involved that consuming data and giving trivial input.

Both can co-exist in a household.

I think it's been around a decade since someone first suggested ARM as a possible AmigaOS target. A port back then could have led to AmigaOS being a major player in the tablet space by now. Too late now.

As for Natami, the team had a meltdown and they all went off to do their own thing. The NatAmi head person, Thomas, decided he wanted to do ALL of the work by himself for some personal achievement reasons. As far as I'm concerned it's pretty much dead, at least for the foreseeable future. FPGAArcade is the best bet right now.
 

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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2012, 12:01:50 PM »
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Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?  (Hopefully not vaporware.)


When? Well, I think it will probably will be released somewhere in between "some day in a distant future if hell freezes over and pigs starts to fly during a total sun eclipse" and "never ever"...
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2012, 12:05:17 PM »
Tablet-sales-to-hit-100-million-units-in-2012

That's almost 30% of the entire PC market.


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I think it's been around a decade since someone first suggested ARM as a possible AmigaOS target. A port back then could have led to AmigaOS being a major player in the tablet space by now. Too late now.

Hardly.  If it'd been completely rewritten and given away for free then someone might have used it on a cheap device, but probably not for very long.  The market is pretty much iOS or Android.
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2012, 01:59:29 PM »
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+1 to this. Finished hardware projects are rare enough in this community, the last thing we'd need is for perfectly good time and effort to go into something so useless.


Minds like you is what ruined commodore, a tablet will be sold in more units than any computer even if it is driven by a exoticOS (= AmigaOS)
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2012, 02:11:57 PM »
I had to check wether this was Amiga.org or OldDuffers.org, it's funny how fans of a computer that changed the world 25 years ago now piss and moan about tablets, the most transformative innovation in the computer world in the last two decades.

Wake up and smell the coffee, if there even is a netbook market in 2015 it'll be lumped in the "other" category as statistically irrelevant.
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Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2012, 02:15:51 PM »
Well "NetBooks" and "UltraBooks" will more or less merge with tablet+kbd replacing the lower end.

The reall issue with the LimeBook (aka OS4book) is that it allready was a bottomdweller when it was introduced years ago.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else